Nancy Gibbs

Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.

American Journalist

John W. Gardner

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

American Educator

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

French Writer

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

German Poet

Samuel Johnson

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

English Writer

Antonio Conte

It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?

Italian Coach

Jesus Christ

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

Leader

Saint Augustine

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

Saint

William Samuel Johnson

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

American Politician

Friedrich Nietzsche

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

German Philosopher

Use 'exalt' when expressing intense admiration or respect for a person or idea.

High Esteem

The phrase 'exalt to the skies' can be metaphorical, meaning giving extreme praise, not physical elevation.

Not Always Literal

'Exalt' often reflects a significant rise in position or influence, not minor promotions.

Elevation in Status

It's unconventional to use 'exalt' about elevating oneself; it's typically an external recognition.

Not for Self-Use

Use 'exalt' to express a powerful emotion of joy, to a degree of feeling spiritually uplifted.

Joyful Uplift

It's less common to use 'exalt' in reference to objects compared to people or feelings.

Rarely for Objects

'Exalt' in religion often means praising or honoring deity with deep respect and reverence.

Religious Worship

In religious contexts, exalting is a shared activity, often done as part of a group or ceremony.

Communal Activity

 oh you know you're a climber your photographer you're so lucky you're doing what you love they're also the two things that drive me even though the insane because you're the most obsessed about them they burn me as much as they exalt my kind of salt right you're really passionate about climbing something and you put your heart and

Proof: Jimmy Chin on...

 And his call to convergence still resonates through most of what we're trying to make now. "Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted,

Mind-blowing stage...

 takes its victims straight out to sea without even killing it. And there it plays with its catch as if it were exalting in triumph.